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Your position is both medically disproved and demeaning. Correct it please before you do more harm. I made it to middle age without any ADHD diagnosis or stimulants, including coffee. My symptoms were present from early childhood and remain to this day, I expect I'll carry them to my grave. The entire time it's been an agonizing struggle, in ways I learned over decades were not normal compared to my friends and famil…
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Is that physiological though? Maybe psychological?
Is there a practical difference?
It has nothing to do with porn consumption and is physiological.
I read somewhere some people have "performance anxiety" after watching a lot of porn and lose their boner before penetration, but that's completely different to "never getting a boner".
Also seems possible that married men, who are at a lower risk for almost every negative health outcome there is, are also at a lower risk for prostate cancer due to what is outlined in the paper. Married men seem more likely to have frequent (ahem) both due to literally living with their partner, as well as having a lower likelihood of depression, higher testosterone (the higher test generally would lead to the marri…
There’s a bell curve for frequency of sex among couples, but far more consistent is a spouse encouraging her husband to go to the doctor.
I worked on a project years ago that was pretty disturbingly accurate at predicting health outcomes by looking at behavior. The most at risk for anything were divorced males, even more than alcohol or drug abuse. Basically that event makes a wide variety of bad outcomes more likely. They are also east to spot and market to with destructive products ranging from alcohol to gambling, you name it.
For women it was different, the caretaking trap was a major risk factor for health issues - the catalyst was often a sick parent.
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Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements. Make sure to contrast and check whatever you do with regular blood tests that tell you whether you're doing the right thing or needs adjustments because if you continue down that path you're going to fuck yourself up.
Measurements are useful but stop this BS that whatever you do doesn't matter if you can't measure it. There is a lot of things we can't measure that are worth doing. Like maybe improving your relationship with your wife and kids. Or reducing distraction and improving your focus while you are working. If the only thing you did and mattered in your life was your diet then yes, you would have to keep measuring it obsess…
And what does that have to do with prostate cancer, I wonder?
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Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements. Make sure to contrast and check whatever you do with regular blood tests that tell you whether you're doing the right thing or needs adjustments because if you continue down that path you're going to fuck yourself up.
> Just remember: none of that matters unless you're taking measurements. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. (attributed to Albert Einstein)
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Yeah I agree, the frustration is real. You can't really joke about "serious" addictions like heroin or binge eating like you can with porn, and it results in your concerns being taken less seriously. Sexual humor is validated everywhere and it entraps those with less self control And one thing I haven't seen mentioned a whole lot, the release of Stable Diffusion has made my problem way, way worse. I've been magnetize…
I don't understand. How has the release of Stable Diffusion made your porn addiction worse?
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What are your current diet assumptions? From what I heard, the best way to stay healthy is to follow mediterranean and DASH diets.
Basically all Mediterranean dishes are cooked on the olive oil, for which you can find many sources claiming that it is extraordinarily healthy. However, I am starting to be wary of this claim because olive oil has a _lot_ of saturated fats when compared to other food, roughly around 15-16g per 100g. To put this figure into the context: 20% cooking cream, which is usually considered unhealthy because of its high satu…
Sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture
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Most of that community appears to be based on woo and bad analysis of science/biology, so I imagine they'd likely dismiss this study out of hand regardless. But also, we shouldn't forget this: > The studies from the United States and Australia do little to answer these critical questions — but they do open a new avenue for research This isn't a fully understood area of research yet.
I don’t need research to listen to my own body and notice that I have a lot more energy, confidence, and enthusiasm for life with nofap. The difference is night and day. I noticed this on my own before ever hearing about nofap, and so have numerous cultures and religions. The dismissive attitude you have is one I have seen a lot, and only makes sense to me if your body works differently from mine. Is there is some sl…
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What are your current diet assumptions? From what I heard, the best way to stay healthy is to follow mediterranean and DASH diets.
I am currently "researching", learning all this stuff. So I guess take it with lots of caution? Since you asked, this is headlines of most of what I figured out: * Your main goals should be achieving metabolic flexibility, eliminating most of the "bad" stuff (sugars, processed oils, most carbs, etc.), supplying your body with mitochondrial decouplers daily and doing low level aerobic exercise, consistently. * If you…
Can you elaborate? As far as I'm aware exercise (even moderate) does indeed increase insulin sensitivity. I was told so by my doctor and as type 1 diabetic with 24/7 glucose monitoring sensor I can "see" this. A day long hike (not intense, just long) does incredibly things to my required insulin dosage. It can go down to mere 10% the amount of insulin per carbs that I usually use. Now of course some of this is due to the exercise itself and the muscles taking in some of that energy. But some should be due to a reduced insulin sensitivity.
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Basically all Mediterranean dishes are cooked on the olive oil, for which you can find many sources claiming that it is extraordinarily healthy. However, I am starting to be wary of this claim because olive oil has a _lot_ of saturated fats when compared to other food, roughly around 15-16g per 100g. To put this figure into the context: 20% cooking cream, which is usually considered unhealthy because of its high satu…
> By knowing for the fact that saturated fats are unhealthy This is simply not true, much less a "fact". This myth most probably comes from the good old American Heart Association who base their opinion of a study way back in the 1960s which was since proven to have been of extremely low quality. There is a ton of info about this online (including scientific studies, not just blog posts), pro and contra, you can read…
Besides, the AMA also uses the research from all the other decades from the 1960s until now to make their recommendations.